transmissible
Example Sentences
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The hepatitis B virus is highly transmissible and many people may not know they have it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Skipper’s other primary motivational device — besides his highly transmissible energy — has been slogans.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
The National Trust spokeswoman added: "Decaying marine mammals pose a serious health risk. They can carry a range of diseases that are transmissible to humans and dogs."
From BBC • May 26, 2025
This process could generate a new variant that possesses the worst features of both—a virus that is transmissible from person-to-person like the seasonal flu, and severe, like those two concerning cases of D1.1.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024
Special weakness thus created is transmissible to the offspring.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.